After watching that show... er, monitoring the documentaries regarding those strange events, my friends and I came to the conclusion that Kryptonite is a "stuff catalyst". It makes... 'stuff'... happen. Weird stuff.
I was just now writing a reply like yours, but I deleted it because it was wrong. Remember that its temperature will be incoming solar radiation / total black-body-esque emitted radiation. Of course it depends massively on the actual albedo of the meteorite, but if you assume it's similar to moon rocks, it should have a similar average surface temperature to the moon. Which is -53 C at the equator, and 90 C colder at 85 N latitude. So while it won't be absolute zero, it's still fairly chilly by our standards.
Parent Summary: People give their resources to create things they need. (Oh, and RMS sucks!) I just thought this was worth quoting. It's true, and it's something that people around here often seem to forget.
Network Authentication Server. If you're a truly hardcore sysadmin, it's important that they never, EVER go down... why settle for less than the best? Go nuclear!
Ouch, please remember me never to get bankrupt. You mean please remind you. Unless you want to be remembered, in the sense of undoing the dismemberment.
Oh, you actually composed that rather than found it somewhere and pasted? In that case, kudos.:) I assumed it was some meme I hadn't seen yet, but for a slashdot post that's a fair effort!;)
Now I'll have to cut and paste it in a bunch of places, any comments the last verse elicits will just serve to make the message more memorable.:)
Anti-surveillance isn't the only target audience. Build 'em right and you could market them as anti-EMI clothing in general - I'm sure there's a decent market for clothing that will reduce the amount of radiation you receive from that mobile phone tower in your back yard. *rushes off to patent...*:P
My wife bought me the 10th book [...] I put the book on a shelf and never read it. I bought it as reading material for a 5 hour plane flight. I got through about 20 pages. Shoulda taken the hint from that...:P
Well, here's hoping he left enough notes (and by all accounts he would have) for the story to be finished off 'correctly'. I threw in the towel at the end of book 10 after none of the vital plotlines from book 9 were measurably advanced - in retrospect I should have stopped at book 7. Nonetheless, if it IS brought posthumously to some kind of conclusion it'd be nice to know what happens. A lot of wonderful storylines in an excellent fantasy world, if only he could have split it up into about 3-4 parallel series like Feist did with Midkemia.
It seems to me that you're somehow arguing that if people use all the way up to a fictitious hard limit, they're unprofitable, but can't be kicked off. If they're unprofitable... change the limit. One of our larger Australian ISPs, with a reputation for being 'downloader friendly', recently did this. Their low end plan went from 8GB/month to 5GB/month allowed at the same price, but their higher limit (more oversold) plans increased in price by up to 50%. Compared to the overseas plans talked about above, they're not that impressive, but they're one of the best ISPs in Australia. I'd guess the difference comes from the fact that the majority of popular web sites are in the states, which means that most web data here has to pay some form of cable tariff for using undersea cables. Data in the States doesn't have this problem.
Incoming "you ignorant anti-Islamic bla bla bla who dares to call it how you see it, you must be a slave of the western media, you obviously don't know any real muslims because I know two and they're both not terrorists" in 3, 2, 1...
Face it, if you're white, and either Atheist or Christian, you have no right to an opinion. Fun, innit?
Cordwainer Smith declared it best -
Scanners Live In Vain Although Scanners had nothing to do with government surveillance, and were starship officers who commanded the Habermans: people who had been surgically modified to remove all senses but sight, to render them immune to the "Pain of Space", a fictional effect that killed the first starship crews and is inimical to conscious or intelligent life (it's not made clear exactly how).
Wiki Entry. If you can suspend disbelief long enough to pretend that cosmic rays only interact with live tissue, and rapidly kill living organisms, it's a great read.:)
You think that the media won't publish something that sensational, just because the government told them not to? If anything I'd be afraid of the media manipulating public opinion to control the government, rather than the government manipulating the media. Or it could just be the media and the Government collaborating to make me THINK that... hmm, I see where this is going...
Gases are the liquid with varying density. <pedant>Actually, gases are a fluid, as are liquids. Gases are not liquids.</pedant> Also, as others have pointed out, water's density is invariant wrt. pressure, not temperature, otherwise there would be no convective currents in water. Water is densest at 4 degrees Centigrade and, due to some weirdness involving Van der Waal's force, actually gets less dense as it cools below that point.
I'm sorry dude, but unlike the kilogram, the metre isn't defined based on an artifact but rather it is defined based on the speed of light in a vacuum, so unless that changed, the metre hasn't either. Fixed. Otherwise, you'd have to pay 20% more for sheet glass because meters inside the glass would be shorter than meters outside the glass.:P
I remember being in USSR (uninterrupted sustained silent reading) and the teacher mentioning that there was no longer a place called USSR and so the name of the class was no longer funny. >.>
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After watching that show... er, monitoring the documentaries regarding those strange events, my friends and I came to the conclusion that Kryptonite is a "stuff catalyst". It makes... 'stuff'... happen. Weird stuff.
I was just now writing a reply like yours, but I deleted it because it was wrong. Remember that its temperature will be incoming solar radiation / total black-body-esque emitted radiation. Of course it depends massively on the actual albedo of the meteorite, but if you assume it's similar to moon rocks, it should have a similar average surface temperature to the moon. Which is -53 C at the equator, and 90 C colder at 85 N latitude. So while it won't be absolute zero, it's still fairly chilly by our standards.
Network Authentication Server. If you're a truly hardcore sysadmin, it's important that they never, EVER go down... why settle for less than the best? Go nuclear!
Nymphomaniacal anything would be welcome hereabouts. ;)
That's not breasts, that's a bicycle.
;)
(.Y.) <-- tits
(_._) <-- ass
I believe someone on gamedev.net once recieved a 24 hour posting ban, after a thread on ascii goatse 'implementations', for posting this:
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Seeing someone who's old enough to spell properly, and doesn't know that the original smiley face had a nose, makes me feel so, so old. :(
You're saying that he cracked a chubby about chubbies? Popped a pringle over plumpies? Had a hard-on for heavies?
Oh, you actually composed that rather than found it somewhere and pasted? In that case, kudos. :) I assumed it was some meme I hadn't seen yet, but for a slashdot post that's a fair effort! ;)
:)
Now I'll have to cut and paste it in a bunch of places, any comments the last verse elicits will just serve to make the message more memorable.
Obviously it's between an African and a European million. And FTFA, it's laden.
Anti-surveillance isn't the only target audience. Build 'em right and you could market them as anti-EMI clothing in general - I'm sure there's a decent market for clothing that will reduce the amount of radiation you receive from that mobile phone tower in your back yard. *rushes off to patent...* :P
Bastard. Now I'll never know how it ends.
Well, here's hoping he left enough notes (and by all accounts he would have) for the story to be finished off 'correctly'. I threw in the towel at the end of book 10 after none of the vital plotlines from book 9 were measurably advanced - in retrospect I should have stopped at book 7. Nonetheless, if it IS brought posthumously to some kind of conclusion it'd be nice to know what happens. A lot of wonderful storylines in an excellent fantasy world, if only he could have split it up into about 3-4 parallel series like Feist did with Midkemia.
People eat their phones in the cinema up your way? Sounds uncomfortable!
Incoming "you ignorant anti-Islamic bla bla bla who dares to call it how you see it, you must be a slave of the western media, you obviously don't know any real muslims because I know two and they're both not terrorists" in 3, 2, 1...
Face it, if you're white, and either Atheist or Christian, you have no right to an opinion. Fun, innit?
Scanners Live In Vain Although Scanners had nothing to do with government surveillance, and were starship officers who commanded the Habermans: people who had been surgically modified to remove all senses but sight, to render them immune to the "Pain of Space", a fictional effect that killed the first starship crews and is inimical to conscious or intelligent life (it's not made clear exactly how).
Wiki Entry. If you can suspend disbelief long enough to pretend that cosmic rays only interact with live tissue, and rapidly kill living organisms, it's a great read.
You think that the media won't publish something that sensational, just because the government told them not to? If anything I'd be afraid of the media manipulating public opinion to control the government, rather than the government manipulating the media. Or it could just be the media and the Government collaborating to make me THINK that... hmm, I see where this is going...
Gimme a W... gimma a H, gimme an O, gimme another O, gimme a... nevermind.
I remember being in USSR (uninterrupted sustained silent reading) and the teacher mentioning that there was no longer a place called USSR and so the name of the class was no longer funny. >.>